Section: News & Summaries

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has reported that three children were killed in a grenade explosion in the militant-occupied town of Yenakiieve in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, on July 4.”Personnel at the hospital in ”Donetsk People`s Republic (”DPR”)-controlled Yenakiieve (41km north-east of Donetsk), told the SMM that three...

A total of 43% of Ukrainians consider NATO membership Ukraine`s main national security guarantee, according to a study by Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Razumkov Center, a political analyst of the Democratic Initiatives Foundation Maria Zolkina said at a press conference on Wednesday, an UNIAN correspondent...

Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende has stressed that the holding of elections in Donbas is impossible until Russia withdraws its troops, according to an UNIAN correspondent.”We shouldn`t think that the Minsk agreements only mean elections and decentralization. Minsk also means the withdrawal of Russian armed forces, Russian military vehicles...

Ukraine`s Ministry of Economic Development and Trade calls on Kazakhstan to demand that the Russian Federation abolish restrictions on the transit of Ukrainian goods, the ministry reported on its official Twitter page.”[Economy Minister Stepan] Kubiv and [Ukraine Trade Representative Natalia] Mykolska have urged Kazakhstan to demand that Russia...

Ukraine`s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has called the country`s cooperation with its key creditor – the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — constructive, adding that all disputed issues have been resolved.”We have resolved all the issues in the `Government-IMF` framework. And it has been a constructive cooperation,” Groysman said...

Ukraine has taken substantive and very hopeful steps in its reform of local governance, the President of the European Committee of the Regions, Markku Markkula, said today in a meeting of a special task-force created by cities and regions in the European Union to help Ukraine, according to CoR`s press service.Speaking in the southern Ukrainian...

The Cabinet of Ministers on July 6 has extended its food embargo on Russian goods for six months, until December 31, 2017, in response to a new wave of restrictive measures earlier imposed by Russia.”A draft resolution has been submitted that proposes to extend until December 31, 2017, inclusive, the ban on supplies to the Ukrainian customs...

On September 19, 2015, Antonov design bureau, which is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company and part of the state-run Ukroboronprom Concern, signed an agreement with PJSC ”VASO” (Russia) for the supply of aggregates, parts and components for civil aircraft worth $7.65 million, according to an investigative report by Nashi...

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin said that the Kingdom of Norway had increased assistance to Ukraine by seven times since the beginning of the Russian aggression in 2014, according to an UNIAN correspondent.”We were able to discuss the whole range of issues that we had planned for today`s conversation, having started with the...

Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Valeriy Chaly said that Ukraine and the U.S. plan to jointly launch the space rocket Antares.”We plan to launch the rocket together with the U.S in the coming months”, the diplomat said, Ukraine Today reported citing the Ukrainian media.Chaly says Ukraine is among the world`s top ten countries in space...